If It Is You (Y.Jw) [Sequel]

Scandal (4)

It's been three whole weeks now and the company has yet to find the documents needed to prove Jiyeon's innocence in the accused harassment scandal Taehee had dragged her into. Especially in the past week she has not been herself, she's been sleeping less and been less energetic and happy, she barely even spoke unless she had to.

"Come on, you can't lose again!" Sunoo complained to Niki as the boys all sat in the livingroom watching Niki and Heeseung play a football game against each other.

"I am not losing," Niki defended before yelling out in frustration as Heeseung just happily laughed in victory.

"Has anyone seen Bubs today?" Sunghoon spoke in realization of the absence of the girl. But as on cue she walked into the living room and plopped down in the empty spot beside Jungwon, "speaking of the sun."

"Quite literally," Sunoo added on, making Jiyeon send him a small smile.

"How's it today?" Jungwon immediately spoke and grabbed onto her hand tightly.

"Fine," she muttered before looking back towards the screen, "who's winning?"

"Heeseung hyung," Niki grumbled in return, "but I want a rematch!"

"Oh you're on," Heeseung let out a small maniac laugh before they started another game.

Jiyeon stared at the screen intently, she usually didn't give a care for video games so it almost seemed like she was trying to stay awake by the way her eyes would nearly close once in a while.

"You didn't sleep much tonight either, did you?" Jungwon turned to her making her slowly look over at him "you didn't?"

"It's alright," she mumbled in return before looking back towards the screen, making Jungwon immediately grab her chin and easily turn her head.

"What are they saying now?" he questioned, making Jiyeon let out a small sigh, knowing very well he won't let it be.

"The usual," she excused with a shrug, "that I'm a bad person and shouldn't be here."

"And when you say shouldn't be here you mean the group or..." he trailed off.

"Oh yeah no, both in the group and just in general... you know on earth," she casually replied making him let out a sigh and pull her into his side and laid her head on his shoulder as he slowly began running his hands through her hair.

"You know... it's not true, right?" he spoke up, making Jiyeon just shrug, his head snapped to her immediately, "it's not. Please don't think or do anything stupid."

"Mhm," Jiyeon just hummed as her eyes began drooping once again.

Before neither of them had realized Jiyeon had fallen asleep quickly and curled up into a small ball as her head laid in Jungwon's lap, her face buried in his shirt as her fists held onto the fabric of it. As Jungwon had realized he had quickly held two fingers under her nose, just in case. He let out a deep breath as he felt her breath softly fanning his fingers.

"Thank god," he muttered and carefully placed an arm around her shoulders, so that he placed his hand between her shoulder blades, keeping her close as he brushed her hair out of her face.

"She must be tired," Jay commented as he saw the sight of the two.

"I think people are getting harsher on her," Jungwon nodded at him whilst just staring down at the sleeping girl in his lap, "it's been a while since I saw a nice comment on her."

"He's right. She hasn't posted anything in two weeks now, and she hasn't been in any content lately, but people still write mean things about her," Jake pointed out.

"Why are they so slow with finding those documents?" Sunghoon sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"In a way I think noona doesn't want them to find them," Niki spoke up making everyone look over at him, "if they found them they would be able to prove that it was the other way around. Then the roles would be reversed and everyone would be mean to Taehee noona, she wouldn't want that either."

"The least Jiyeon would want was to hurt another human being," Sunoo nodded in agreement.

"You don't think I can get ahold of Taehee and tell her to pull the statement back?" Jungwon spoke up, making the boys all widen their eyes at him.

"You're not contacting that girl again," Jay shook his head at him.

"But the reason she is doing it is because she likes me," Jungwon spoke up, "so if I can get her to admit everything in texts I could screenshot them and sent it to the company."

"We get you want Jiyeon back, but it'll just hurt her even more if you contact her again," Heeseung reminded him.

"But what if she doesn't know?" Jungwon offered.

"You're not doing it," Sunghoon shook his head at him, "she'll be finding out one way or another, we all know that. You just risk making it worse than it already is. We'll just have to wait and try to keep Bubs happy and bright in the meantime."

"And we alreaday failed at that," Jay sighed and looked over at the girl who just held tightly onto Jungwon's shirt, "we should probably go and get dinner ready."

"Yeah," Jake nodded in agreement and stood up along with Jay, letting the other boys slowly trail after him, leaving Jungwon behind with Jiyeon sleeping still.

"How do we get you back again?" Jungwon sighed to himself and looked down at the girl who slowly stirred, making him quickly rub his hand back and forth between her shoulderblades, in hopes of it helping.

"Jungwon?" Jiyeon muttered, making Jungwon hum in return just in case she still were asleep, "it's cold."

"Hold on, I'll get you a blanket," Jungwon assured and were about to lift up her head before she held tighter onto his shirt.

"No, stay with me," she mumbled making him look down at her as she was staring blankly into his shirt, "please."

The look on her face immediately shattered something in Jungwon. He had seen her look so lifeless once before, but that time it was because of him so it was easier for him to make it good. This time he was powerless over the situation, he couldn't make it better like he could last time and he hated not knowing for how long she would be suffering the way she was.

"Come here," he muttered and lifted her up so she sat in his lap, he carefully had an arm wrapped around her waist before laying a hand on her nape and pressed his forehead to hers, "you know I love you, right?"

"Mhm," she hummed with a small nod as she struggled to keep her eyes open.

"I'll keep you warm," he muttered and carefully laid down with her in his embrace, making sure to trap her between the back of the couch and his own body, to keep her more warm.

He let his legs tangle with hers as he held her tightly with one arm around her waist, and the other went under her head and around her shoulders. Meanwhile both her hands were held up in front of her as she held onto his shirt in a tight grip.

"Please don't leave me," she muttered absentmindedly and nuzzled her head into his chest making him sigh and hold tighter onto her.

"I'm never leaving," he assured her and placed a kiss on her forehead, "never. I promise."